Submitted by Pavanmishra:
Experience India like you have never dreamed before on the most unique, inspiring and soul fulfilling travel adventure. Rock Your World - India is no glossy travel itinerary. It is where you will experience India at the grass roots level. The experience you will have will be one of the most profound of your life and stay wi (Read More)
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Think you know what you’re doing every time you engage in social media? Neither do I, and neither do the social media gurus I spoke to about their biggest social networking blunders. In an effort to learn from others’ mistakes, here’s a list of some all-star errors in judgment from some social media all stars. I’ll lead off (Read More)
: @sarahcrisman I appreciate your honesty too. When I wrote my comment I had no idea that this article would get so popular. I think it would be funny to have a post, where everybody can reveal the most embarrassing thing they did online. What do you think!
ReadWriteWeb
When Twine announced itself to the world exactly one year ago, it claimed to be "the first mainstream Semantic Web application". However despite raising millions of dollars in its quest to bring the Semantic Web to the mainstream, Twine has been beset by usability and performance issues in its beta period. Our own Marshall (Read More)
Six Revisions : Web Development and Design
As web technologies progress, websites and web applications are becoming more responsive, providing us with more ways and techniques to interact with the users. Form, more than ever, has been superseded by function.The following websites deal with interface design, user experience, user-centered design, usability, and e (Read More)
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RDF is the cornerstone of The Semantic Web, yet there still very few commercial RDF apps.In the latest issue of Nodalities, a magazine about the Semantic Web by UK company Talis, there is an article by Talis CTO Ian Davis about the state of Semantic Web applications. Davis says that we're still in "Generation Zero" of the S (Read More)
louisgray.com
At Blog World Expo last week, I said that those services which "played well with others" would do better in a collaborative, cooperative Web 2.0 landscape over those that instead held tight to their walled gardens (See tweet from @drewolanoff.) It is through the launch of an API and extensive developer activity that service (Read More)
: This is a good news, first wanted DISQUS to be the commenting system on my blog, now more from it is icing. Will look into the api and would see if something better can be done.
Submitted by Infodiva:
The Securities and Exchange Commission runs an SEC Investor Info feed with its latest announcements and brief statements from Chairman Christopher Cox. For consumers, the Federal Citizen Information Center in Pueblo, Colo. -- that familiar address from countless TV public-service announcements -- issues recall notices and c (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider
StockTwits.com, a Twitter- and Tumblr-powered financial bulletin board, has closed an angel round of financing. The site skims Twitter for messages people tag with stock symbols -- $GOOG for Google, for instance -- and aggregates them on a Tumblr site with stock charts, tags, and comments.StockTwit's investors include Walls (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
PitchEngine, the new tool that allows brands and PR pros to share digital PR contents and assets via social methods, announced the addition of socialmedian to its integrated sharing options.Social Media Releases (SMRs) created on PitchEngine enable readers to easily click and share releases via social bookmarking and networ (Read More)
Mashable!
Sometimes we discover interesting websites that we want to save to check out later because we’re busy with other tasks. For such occasions, there is a new breed of browser addons, bookmarklets, and special bookmarking services available to help save those urls and retrieve them easily later. Here are 11 of them.Do you (Read More)
: I am trying out toread.cc... it does what I want. I like my web apps like I like my command line programs; simple, dedicated to a specific task, and good at it
Mashable!
Way back in early July, we made note of a little video aggregation engine called ScrapeUp, an offshoot of VideoSift. It turns out both are still alive and kicking. The news today is that the folks who brought you those services are out with another public beta. It’s name is Dwigger. And while it doesn’t quite roll of the to (Read More)
Submitted by Michaelfidler:
CERN, Switzerland (CNN) -- Deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland, scientists Wednesday fired up one of the most ambitious experiments ever conceived, firing protons around a 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel to try to unlock the secrets of the universe. (Read More)
Submitted by Michaelfidler:
Hello? Tap, tap, tap, this thing on?CERN's $9 billion, 17-mile long atom smasher was just turned on and we're awaiting reports on how the tests have gone. The Large Hadron Collider did experience "small electrical problems" overnight. However, these were not expected to delay the first test firing at 9:30am CEST. As such, t (Read More)
Submitted by Raavi:
How would you monetize YouTube and all that delicious traffic? How would you monetize a video when it only lasts 1 to 3 minutes? Online video monetization, the holy grail of marketing…. queue exotic sounding Indiana Jones music…. (Read More)